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Can a new worker-owned platform create a more equitable sharing economy?
Carolina Herrera pushes a stroller through the slushy city streets, propelling one-year-old Zavier, as well as her own two-year-old daughter, Mariana. Herrera is small, and the double stroller takes a lot of her strength—usually, it’s a single stroller, and Mariana is at home with a neighbor Read More...
Fossil fuels continue to fall as green deals grow following Royal Bank of Scotland divestment
One of the world’s biggest financiers of fossil fuels is taking its business to green energy. A global trend of withdrawing investments in fossil fuels is sweeping the globe as Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has reduced its global lending to oil and gas companies. The bank is also doubling its Read More...
Inflammation following stroke can be key to self healing of the brain
Inflammation is seen as the cause of most diseases. So medicine is focused on getting rid of inflammation as soon as possible. For instance: After a stroke, there is inflammation in the damaged part of the brain. That inflammation has been seen as a negative consequence that needs to be abolished Read More...
Apple recovered one ton of gold by recycling iPhones last year
Apple’s eco-friendly efforts paid off as the tech-giant reclaimed nearly one metric ton of gold by recycling its own products in 2015. At current prices, that’s equivalent to around $40 million worth of gold. As well as the gold, the company recovered three tons of silver, and over 1,300 tons Read More...
Indonesia bans new oil palm and mining concessions
Palm oil impacts a major part of your life—from the soap you use to the cookies you eat. The problem is that in many places ancient rainforests are cleared to make way for plantations to produce palm oil. Environmental organizations have been campaigning to end this deforestation. Now Indonesia, Read More...
Can money buy you happiness?
Researchers found that self-reported emotional well-being increased with a higher income—but only up to $75,000 per year. No further effects on happiness were found past the amount. Other studies suggest it isn’t the dollar amount that boosts happiness, but rather how the money is spent. Here Read More...
Global electric car sales on the rise
After four years of steady growth, U.S. plug-in electric car sales were essentially flat last year. Low gas prices and increased demand for SUVs had a dampening effect on the segment, which still accounts for a very small fraction of U.S. new-car sales. However, in other parts of the world, it was Read More...
Why the sharing economy needs tougher rules
A report released last week by the Grattan Institute on services like Uber and Airbnb finds that such peer-to-peer services can provide large benefits to the economy, but that governments need to ensure that both consumers and providers are protected. Hoping the services will just go away is not an Read More...
Mushrooms To The Rescue!
Eben Bayer grew up on a maple farm in Canada. To fire up the boiler they’d use woodchips, which is where Bayer first learned about mycelium or “nature’s glue”. Heaps of woodchips would – as you may imagine – start to grow mushrooms when left alone outside and when it was time to move Read More...
Refugee teachers go back to school to train for work in Germany
Migrants who worked as teachers in their home countries are getting the chance to teach again in German schools thanks to a new program at the University of Potsdam. The program gives refugee teachers German language lessons as well as seminars on the German school system and teaching methods used Read More...